Improvement in picture-nails



s. c. CARY.

Improvement in Picture Nails. No. 124,933. PatentedMarch 26,1872.

SPENCER O. CARY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICTURE-NAILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,933, dated March26, 1872.

To all whomit't may concern:

Be it known that I, SPENCER C. CARY, of Brooklyn, county of Kings, inthe State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inOrnamental Headed Picture- Na-ils or Screws; and I do hereby declarethat the following specification, taken in connection with the drawingforming a part of this application, is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to makeand use the same.

The drawing shows the nature of my invention, and relates to that classof nails or screws with ornamental heads, used principally for hangingpictures, 826., and consists in using wood and metal in such a mannerthat the head or bar may be used as a lever to turn the screw into thewall.

Referring to the drawing, Figures 1 and 3 are my improved picture-nailor screw with a head or bar of wood. Fig.2 is a view of the screw, withthe eye or ring of the same surrounding the wood part. Figs. 4 and 5 aresectional views of the bars, showing the metallic caps on the ends ofthe same.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willdescribe.

The screwA is formed of any suitable metal, and by any of the usualways. The eye part P is formed by bending or casting in the usualmanner. The wood part B is turned in the accustom ed way by lathe orhollow mandrel, of suitable sizes and lengths, and may be polished,oiled, or by anyof the known methods for finishing woods. The shapes andstyles may be numerous, to suit the taste of the most fastidious. Thesewood bars are secured in the ring or eye of the screw by compressing thediameter of the same upon the wood at the center, indenting sufficientlyto prevent slipwhere a long shank is required, I attach washers to thescrew, as shown in Fig. 3 at H. I would remark that the metallic caps orother similar ornaments may be cast, or of sheet metal formed by theusual means.

The object of my invention is to provide an article to be used insuspending picture-frames and for other similar purposes, in a mannerthat the person desiring may, without the use of tools, secure the samein any desired position in a better and more satisfactorymanner thanhasbeen heretofore known. The employment of wood for ease and chca-pnessof manufacture, the various pleasing shades of the same when polished orotherwise finished, the metallic ring surrounding the same'when platedor otherwise 'finished, contrasts with the wood, and avery ornamentaldevice is obtained.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is The knob 13of wood, with or without the caps E, in combination with the. eye orring P forming a part of the screw A, as and for the purposes described.

' SPENCER O. CARY. [L. 3.]

Witnesses:

JOHN DANE, Jr., JOSEPH M. CRANE.

